USB flash drives.
The Universal serial bus.
USB port or interface released in 1995, has become the standard for all devices, replacing older devices
that would have been connected to specific parallel ports on a computer.
It's quite common to see almost any device or peripherals connected to a computer via a USB connection,
including mice, keyboards, flash drives, printers, scanners, cameras, mobile devices and just
about every other device.
The evolution of the USB port is shown.
The evolution of the USB port is shown here.
USB flash drives come in all shapes and sizes today from the standard rectangular to any shape imaginable.
USB flash drives use named Eprom chips to store their data and today are available in various versions
that define the read write speeds of the flash drive.
The following photo shows various flash drives ranging from the oldest to the newest.
Left to right.
The first drive is a USB 2.1 drive.
The middle is a 32GB USB 3.0 drive and the last right side is a significantly smaller 64GB.
USB 3.2 drive here.